"it's easy to be a bad writer, but it's hard to wake up each day and devote a chunk of your life to bad writing."

Thursday, October 1, 2009

MIDGET KNOW THYSELF

midget know thyselfthe first thing I sawwhen I left my house this morningwas a midgetdressed up nicelyin her midget clothesblack slacks and a white blouseand shiny black shoesshe stood across the streetsmoking a cigarettestaring into the morning sunfor a moment I consideredhow it would beto go about lifeat least a couple feet shorterthan most everybody elseto go to certain shopsto buy your thingsand be the one who is obviously differenteverywhere you gobut looking at herthese were not her thoughts at allshe, just like everybody elseonly knows lifefrom their own perspectivewe only know ourselvesand even the knowledge we haveabout thatis very little, indeed

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About Me

Jackson Warfield was born in a small town in New Hampshire on a dead end road. He has traveled widely and worked a variety of jobs, from digging ditches to walking dogs. He writes for entertainment, his own and others.